Just as I finish my reviews of the ATF games Raging Tiger and The Falklands War 1982, word comes that ProSIM is done with the engine. Their new games will use the Air Assault Task Force (AATF) engine. Their Arab-Israeli Wars game The Star and the Crescent uses a modified ATF, but their Afghanistan game […]

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I couldn’t sleep last night, so I stayed up and caught Hour of the Gun on one of the local TV stations. It’s a middling retelling of the Wyatt Earp story starring James Garner and Jason Robards. It has accusations of rustling, shady lawmen, a few gunfights. And through it all, I thought “Gee. This’d […]

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Gaming has gone Hollywood. Just like the movie studios hold their big Oscar guns until the last couple of months of the year, the September to December period sees a lot of big game releases. The summer months are full of small gems or underappreciated titles, but, for the most part, gaming houses hope to […]

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You can find my interview with Doug Lowenstein, the President of the Entertainment Software Association, in October’s Computer Games Magazine. The interview itself ranged over a few topics, but the edited version in the magazine focuses on Mr. Lowenstein’s reactions to the “Hot Coffee” controversy and the possible industry response to it. The interview is […]

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Wargamer.com, the website of choice for discerning grognards, has reviewed Crown of Glory. Bill Gray liked it a lot more than I did. Admittedly, he left a lot of the decisions to the AI, including economic development and diplomatic activity. Maybe if I had made more use of the virtual viceroys I would have enjoyed […]

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Got my first comment spam today. Something about mortgages.
Anyway, now you have to do that word recognition thing to comment. There are only a few of you doing it, but I hope this extra step doesn’t discourage you.
One more reason to move to Word Press.

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A recent thread on a gaming forum I frequent turned to the question of whether there are some actions in games that you refuse to take on principle. Do you refuse to beat up the prostitutes in Grand Theft Auto? Do you always take the good options in role playing games? I posted that:
“Murdering children […]

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I don’t want this place to become a Firaxis fanboy zone, but there is an interesting interview with Sid Meier on Gamespy. He went to GenCon to check out the games there and had some interesting things to say about the game industry in general.
Meier confirms that Firaxis is going to start designing more games […]

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Gamespot has an excellent interview with Firaxis’s Barry Caudill on some of the changes coming in Civilization IV. My own preview will be coming out in print in a few weeks, so I’ll save most of my comments until it is published and you’ve all had a chance to read it. For now, my opinions […]

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I’m starting to feel a little left out.
I live in a console free environment, mostly because I don’t have enough entertainment hours to play all the PC games I love or enough entertainment dollars to really justify more games anyway. There’s also the issue of being not sure what console to pick (and Xbox so […]

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